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ALIN'S WISHFUL THINKING a { Premier Stelin grants an interview to a visiting “¥¥._ American he makes the most of the opportunity to | reach the free world's press with the latest Soviet propa-

line. His talk with Harold Stassen eoild be regarded as just

— Stalin interview except for one topic he introduced |

by asking about an impending “depression in the United oi analysists and the American press carry open reports to the effect that an economic crisis will break out,” Stalin said. That, of course, reflected wishful thinking on his part. The American system of free-enterprise is the most formidable barrier to further Soviet expansion. Therefore, present Russian foreign policy is keyed to the hope that the American economy soon will collapse and clear the way _ for world-wide Communist revolution, just as the collapse of czarist Russia opened the door for the Bolshevist revolution. The lesson for us is that continuing American prosperity is “essential to world peace. This is only partly because revolutionists have little chance of overturning a thriving economy. Beyond that, it is not in the Russian character to match a fight on anything approaching even terms. Weak nations, like Finland and Poland, have been meat for Russian aggression. But Stalin played ball with Hitler as long as Hitler would “play with him, and avoided a clash with Japan until Japan was licked. Stalin’s wishful thought is itself a mellace to world peace. His agents who report on conditions in the United States tel him, naturally, what he wants to hear. If he believes that we are on the verge of a great depression, even a minor recession here might lead him to make the same mistake Hitler and the Japanese made when the far underestimated America’s potential strength and striking wer. i We can't afford to invite that. We must maintain a sound economy and an adequate program of military, preparedness.

YET the Republican steering eoninition of the senate has left unification of the armed forces and universal military training out of the legislative program it hopes to complete before congress adjourns. The program includes other measures of high importance and of varying merit—Ilabor union regulation, foreign relief, income tax reduction, rent control extension, the Reed-Bulwinkle bill, the national science foundation bill and the presidential succession bill. But no eagerness to adjourn congress and get out of Washington can Justify those two glaring omissions. -Building up. a strong peacetime military establishment should be in the first order of business. Without that, our chances of keeping the peace are seriously lessened, and the bipartisan foreign policy which Secretary Marshall has been voicing so effectively will lose its force. In the name of national security, how can responsible Republican leaders think of permitting congress to run away from its duty on this issue?

TIME FOR RISK-TAKING® ROM two national groups of business leaders come statements about the price problem. First, the U. S. Chamber of. Commerce committee on economic policy argues thus: It is “clearly misleading” to put sole or major blame for current price levels on businessmen, to to suggest that by individual action they could bring all prices down. Business has no control over many forces, including government and labor union policies, that operate to keep prices up. That is true, but it is only part of the truth. Now this, from the National Planning association's business committee: ' “We are here concerned, not with placing blame for the present situation, but with placing responsibility for lead-

- ing the country out of it. That responsibility is squarely up

to businessmen. .'. . The end of price control immediately increased the responsibility of the business community. . . . Businessmen have an obligation, to themselves and to the country, to look hard at the prices they are charging and the prices they are paying, and to start.now to bring down. any that are too high. .... Businessmen are in effect the trustees of the enterprise system. They are its. principal operators. Other economic groups must co-operate if readjustment is to be carried through. But it is to the risktakers of our system that the public logically looks for risk-taking.” There is the other, vastly important part of the truth. Business can’t do the whole job. Business policies, shaped by the individual decisions of businessmen, can do a vital shares. Voluntary price reductions, contributing to an orderly downward readjustment, would involve risks. But there is greater risk involved in excessive prices draining off today’s purchasing power and drying up tomorrow’s market. {

WE'RE FAR OUT FRONT ’ A CHICAGO scientist reveals that the Nazis tried to invent a noise-gun that would kill human beings by sound alone. They succeeded in killing a goat by soundprobably by damaging his nervous system. But he had to be within 10 feet of the instrument, 80 it wasn't Practical for battle use. Here, then, is a taste of another horror of the next hor And of the vital necessity for our scientists to work 8 this » new field. : u jus; we giready have a head start on the rest

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Talk With Their Children?"

By A Teen-ager, Indianapolis

drinigjor use profane language.

as we did when we were smaller.

cide what dress to wear to the dance but mother can't, she's having a group of ladies for bridge. wants to know what kind of corsage to buy for Jane when he takes to the prom. He wants to know at kind of flowers dad bought but dad can't stop now, he -t0 hurry to the lodge. That in about two-thirds of the es in America. the parents would take more with the kids there wouldn't much delinquency. Remember, -agers now will be leaders of parents of America, give up a helping hand. Give us a chance to make good. Please don’t judge us all by a few of the bad ones. ‘We need a leader, and the best leaders are our parents. - P. 8. 1 have my faults, -I'm no angel,

| “NO LAW CAN

MAKE THEM WORK” By Robert Law, Indianapolis . I would like to give my Juice in the matter of the working man of | all the laws passed and ‘talked about, not one is for the man that | does the work; all are to keep him | dog-tied. The only ‘thing a man | holds on an employer is to strike, and all those rights are taken away by dictatorship. When is the working man going to wake up. They won't stick together. You can tell the guys that pass the laws never worked in a factory. The downfall of Germany was by dictatorship. We are no better off, if as good. Why can’t laws be made that will make management be fair with employees. No, they won't talk about those kind of laws, and the working man has to take it. Or does he? I don't feel sorry. for the telephone workers. together. Haven't they the nerve? Does a union have to stick its neck out. There can't be a law to make them work. The law just keeps the union from calling them out. All right, working people, let's stick! together.

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“DARN-FOOL TIME {FOISTED ON PUBLIC” By W. H. Edwards, Gosport

vote of the people, that abomination | of all that pertains to real demo-! cracy, darn-fool time is to be foisted | onto the public. The public press continually spouts about democracy, yet it is|

of ‘politics and business that- de-! mand darn-fool time. If we are to, have any semblance of democracy | then let the people decide, by referendum,. whether they want to fool themselves by substituting darnfool time for standard time. If a portion of the big shots and their office stooges want to start their daily tasks one hour earlier in the summer there's no use to change the clocks; instead of their starting work (?) at 9 or 10 a. m,, let them begin their daily grind at {8 or 8 a. m, and not force othefs unwillingly and undemocratically to] submit to their dictation. Our newspapers howl about regimentation; yet the public is forced {to regiment itself to the wishes.of the big shots Jang their stooges. »” | “THINKS DAYLIGHT TIME IS VERY SILLY” By Steady Reader, Cloverdale. I think daylight savihg time is very silly, and as for us, it causes us to burn electricity an hour longer. We get up at 4 a. m. six days a week. On standard time it is almost daylight. Now we have to burni| lights an hour longer. My husband drives 40 miles. to work in Indianapolis; with this silly time, he gets in way before dark, but has to leave | {home before good daylight. And a

little later will be too hot to sleep

some good rest in the cool of the morning we have to be up and gone (again. As for the ones who want |to work in the garden, it's almost | |daylight at 4 a. m. standard time, Let them get up early and work awhile. We need some rest early, part time, anyway.

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| “CONSTRUCTIVE THOUGHT

IN LETTERS TO TIMES” By Robert C. Laue, 1413 N. Mount st. I would like to agree with Mr. O.

| Hagen in what he says about some It seems about everyone in the country thinks that about three- (Of the letters which appear in this | I am 15, I don't smoke, Column. There is a lot of needless I mind my parents. Yet I don't feel STiPing, but there is also much conlike I can have no recreation. I go to school dances, skating, movies | (structive thought. I have accepted. and out with a boy once or twice a week. All girls and boys aren't bad. |All Of it in good faith until I read

Most of the time the parents are to blame. 13, 14, 15 and 16 years of age, we need love and understanding Just |,

| Mr. Hagen'’s letter. Yes, without exception, everyone A price. Sad as it may seem, |too many people will set their price in terms of dollars and cents. While some police are collecting graft, politicians = spending - the taxpayers’ money needlessly, and John Q. Public cutting John Doe's throat for the ghty dollar, a state policeman

almi Again, without submitting it to a | |was killed. It was a tragic event

|indeed, but such things are not uncommon. They are.a result of {many “factors, among which aie broken homes, in turn, result from too many people trying to “get theirs while they can.”

the newspapers and the big shots It is my personal and humble

opinion” that if more people would (read the Bible both intensively and extensively there would not be so much misconception of the purpose of life. My price, Mr. Hagen _ is the way of life in which humanity -is human. To have peace of mind and rest, from wars, graft, lies and cheating. Then a man can indeed be proud of ‘his part in the preservation of life and happiiess,

“ASK LEGION GROUP DEFINE AMERICANISM”

By Elmer Johnson, 1710 N. New Jersey st. Concerning the letter of Dr. Harry

H. Nagle, chairman of the “UnAmerican Activities Committee” of the 11th district of the American Legion, may I suggest that your good committee spell out its position

and nieaning of Arfericanism right here in Indianapolis. I sincerely hope it will go beyond the dissemination of the fables in the Readers Digest about “slaves in starving Russia.” “The test of true patriotism and Americanism, we Communists believe, consists in joining with all of labor and the common’ people to defeat the anti-labor legislation now before congress, which if passed would seriously undermine the democratic liberties of the working people. Moreover, what about an Indianapolis program for veterans’ housing? Why not initiate a city-wide program to include all groups including the Communists in support of a federal low-cost houAlg project? Let's do something atoct the shameful discrimination of : Negro veterans and the Negro people generally in our city. Will you join with the Communists and all other liberal and labor groups to enact a city F. E. P. C.? For legislation to end segregation in the city public school system? What about a program for better and cheaper transportation in the city of Indianapolis—perhaps, public ownership of the bus and streetcar lines? This limited program, we Communists believe, is in full accord with. good Americanism. It. will serve to implement democracy right here in Indianapolis. »

. =» “WHY DON'T THEY CASH OUR FURLOUGH BONDS?” By_Combat Infantry Veteran, Crawfordse

If the U. 8. treasury has such a surplus in funds this year ‘why don’t they pay off the veterans for the times when they worked and fought for the U. 8, Instead of going home on furlough. In other words, why

| don’t they cash our furlough bonds

instead of paying us five years from now for work and ‘fighting we did two years ago?

DAILY THOUGHT

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever_ he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.—John 5:19.

WHO is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers,

and both human and divine laws.

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° THE QUEST tor gas and ofl in Indiana is tops splurge of the teen-age bobbysaxer who settled down re. “FT nthe state's Industrial poker game. It has the un- in sober fashion to grow up with the world. certainty and hope of the pioneer with the triumph

of a daring winner, = Indiana caught the first whiff of gas in the middle 1880's, when telephones were but a raucous hope, golden oak furniture the mode, and politics as cagey as they were hot. The year was Yess. By 1908 there were 99 producers’ of gas sad 435 gas wells in the state. “The value of gas products that year was $3,303,500.

Peak of Boom Came in 1902 THE PEAK of production came in 1902. There were 920 producers that year. The gas value was $7,081,344. The number of gas wells was 5820. By 1917, natural gas as an industrial factor in Indiana was just a memory, The 30-year stretch of natural gas in Indiana was an epoch-making era of the state. It marks the passing of Indiana from a predominantly agricultural state to one of the important industrial states of the nation, A little after the end of this era, in 1930, the population of Indiana changed over from predominantly agricultural state to one’ of the important in-

"| dustrial states of the nation.

A little after the end of this era, in 1920, the population of Indiana changed over from predominantly rural to slightly urban. In that year, out of a total population of 2,930,390,

cities, and 1,447,535 in villages and the country. This was 50.6 per cent urban, Thus the gas era of Indiana was the reckless

IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, May 6.—The cloud on Mr. Truman's springtime horizon is the labor bill which is shaping up in congress. At the moment it has a dark and threatening look, as though it might be charged with political thunder and lightning of the most perilous sort. Those in congress who oppose a “strengthened” senate bill are using the argument that the President will certainly veto a measure which goes beyond the moderate reforms he seeks. “Within the President's inner council, however, a quite different viewpoint has been urged by at least one adviser. That: viewpoint is as follows. In the very nature of the political squeeze play being put on the White House, the President must sign almost any bill which comes to him from Capitol Hill. If he vetoes an omnibus bill because it contains provisions he believes are too harsh, and as a consequence no legislation is adopted, then the Republicans will put the blame for this failure on the chief executive. It will become the principal issue of the 1948 campaign,

Timing Is Important THE TIMING is of the utmost, importance. A labor bill will probably reach the President's desk before June 30. In short, the President will have to make his decision before the date on which John L. Lewis is expected to call a nation-wide coal strike. White House strategists readily foresee the consequences of a veto. Since the mines would be back in the hands of the private owners, the government would not have the power it exercised last winter to

REFLECTIONS

NEW YORK, May 6.—People keep asking what's wrofig with holy matrimony and why is the divorce rate rising and all that, and I have at least part of the answer.

We've been off the cuff too long. We are unstable because we have been buying for cash ever since wartime measures knocked us off the jawbone standard. As constituents of cash-and-carry, we have lacked the necessary pressure to keep the nose in perfect alignment with the grindstone. As a consequence we have taken to helling around Some ng fierce. The United States chamber of commerce is plead-

control, and I say “aye.” Let's get everybody back to normal, with the installment man kicking in the door on the first of the month, and the credit department writing nastier letters than were ever penned by Bernard Shaw. Cash, or curtailed credit buying is a vicious thing. It kills initiative. A man is confronted by the simple problem: Have I money enough to pay cash for it now—furniture, frigidaire, five-foot book shelf? If the answer is no he accumulates nothing, and spends his slight surplus on lobster suppers and chorus girls.

| Remember, | Remember THINGS WERE DIFFERENT when Pappy was a strip of a lad. I remember being in hock to the General Motors Acceptance Corp. for the car. The usurers had a noose on me for the first mortgage. A bank had a pipeline to my paycheck for the second mortgage. Leo Rinaldi and Sam Scogna were cutting me up monthly for my annual pinstripe, and the furniture people had a lien on my life. I was being. levied by the Morris Plan for fripperies, and.I was even running & tab with Muscle, the bookmaker’s apprentice. T was poor but happy, and I had to be industrious, because s0 many corporations were listed as dependents. This left no time for carousing. You couldn’t even afford to get sick, because after a month of Jon-

WORLD AFFAIRS

WASHINGTON, May 6.—The visit of Vice President Elpidio Quirino, of the Philippines republic, to the United States, like that of President Aleman, of Mexico, should—but won't—shame those who, at home and abroad, Petite Uncle Sam as a “ruthless imeprialist.” " The United States acquired thé Philippines as a consequence of the war of 1898. The older generation will remember the debate over what we should do with them. 8o0 overwhelming was public opinion in this country against holding on to them as a colony, that President McKinley publicly disclaimed any »such intention. He announced that we would merely hold them in tutelage until they learned to govern themselves at which time they would be freed.

Not Taken Seriously

A COLONIAL-MINDED world derided such an ie, That a great power might give up territory won by conquest’ was simply unheard of. Almost nobody took the Americans seriously, “Oh, sure,” smirked

when they learn how to govern themselves, but who's to say when that time comes? The Americans? Well, you can bank on it, they will always find some excuse to postpone the day.” j _ Nevertheless, congress. passed “the independence act in 1934, 36 years later. To cushion the shock of separation, the Filipinos themselyos asked for an interim_ period as a commonwealth,” dependence came on July 4, 1046. Democratically she has elected her own president, vice president and other officials. She manages her own fotelsn relafions lice any other State snd Jt lo

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there were 1,482,855 Hoosiers living in towns and.

ing for congress to knock all the shackles off credit.

the cynics, “the Filipinos may get their independence

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that threads Indiana back to the dawn of civilization. They symbolise the mld pies of the childhood of the human race, -In historical perspective, the clay products ‘of Ine

diana line ‘up with the clay tablets of Babylonia, the ;

cradle of civilization. On clay tablets the Babylonians wrote the ‘story of the Deluge, the epics of the ereatich; and Ishtar's descent into Hades.

Code of Laws Recorded

ON “THESE TABLETS, too, Hamurabi, the first king of all Babylon, wrote a code of 282 laws. Among these and on similar tablets are recorded mortgages, deeds of sale, promissory notes, and the archives of business firms. Such records ease back to some oie year before Christ was born, The clay.on which these ancient peoples wrote is essentially the same stuff as the clay of Indiana Used by ancient peoples out of necessity, it appeals to Indiana and modern civilisation as a matter of utility, beauty and profit, : The clay products of Indiana, as of 1020, were the

third most valuable mineral resource of ‘the state,

exceeded only by coal and stone. ‘Of the 101 plants manufacturing clay products that year, 84 reported as follows: $14,506,987 of brick and tile, and $3,907,353 of pottery; total $18,508,240. Among the 10 states producing the greatest value of finished clay products, Indiana ranks seventh. An appraising glance at gas, oil and clay in Ine diana presses this thought: Alter gas and oil fade from the Indiana industrial scene, clay will linger long.on its merits and profits, as it did of necessity in Babylonia.

. By Marquis Childs

Truman On the Spot in Labor Crisis

stop the strike by injunction. That injunction was obtained on the ground that the strike was against the government, since the mines were being operated by the department of interior. '

With no means to stop him, the government might

sit for weeks while the obdurate Lewis kept the mines closed down. This grim picture needs little amplification. In time, steel plants would also close and once again,we would have the spectacle of the nation's industry slowed to a standstill at the behest of one man.

In Splendid Position THE CLAMOR that would arise in the country can easily be imagined. The Republicans would be in a splendid position to point the finger of blame at the Democratic President who had vetoed the labor bill. To put it mildly, Mr. Truman would be on an extremely embarrassing spot. All this has been pointed out, and more, too. The President has been told that he could sign the

would make it clear that he had done‘éo sorrowfully and reluctantly because the congress had given him no other choice: that without the power to veto individual items he was compelled to take the good with the bad. Such a message would not be difficult to draft since it would have a lot of logic behind it. Of course, no final decision has been taken in the White House, nor is one likely to be taken before the bill is passed. It will of necessity be given the closest study before any irrevocable step is taken.

. By Robert C. Ruark

‘Easy Credit’ Kept Boys Out of Mischief

production, GM came for the car, the store lugged off-the bed and chairs, and some strange people named Joe moved into your house. Sam and Leo stripped the suit off your back, and the nice man who sold you the radio for a buck down and a buck a month

for 32 years came a-calling with a sour en. : If what ad young fry needs is stabil can

think of no more sobering influence than the purchase of household goods On easy credit. Fhey talk a lot about a baby as the leaden keel to marriage.

A baby ain't in it with & credit- -boughten Ford and a,

bedroom suite which still has 79 payments to run. If a blothesome buck on a short salary started to feeling his oats, and ogling the girls and round the pool halls, there was nothing to bring

him back to reality so sharply as a real vicious letter

from the Credit Corp.'s trained poison penman. Those babies would give you a few days to get it up, and

_ then, if you didn't; the treatment. Pirst you were

Just an ornery bum and they intended only to squeal ito the boss. Later you became a first cousin of Blueheard, with nine murdered wives and an immediate beef promised to the PBL

You Had to Be Good

IN THOSE DUSTY DAYS of the credit checkup and the long-time pay, you had to be a good. boy, because a guy who got fouled up in his payoff rating was a man without a country. You couldn't charge a hamburger, and your neighbors stoned you in the streets. It made a fellow think. It also made him tend to business by day and stay home to worry at night,

. and everybody knows that a man never gets in

trouble. when he spends his nights worrying in front of the unpaid-for andirons. There were some unsavory aspects to long-term buying. 'A streak of bad luck could wipe you out and they took away your half-bought belongings. But there was this to it. A man on a small salary used to be able to enjoy a lot'of creature comforts on the so-much-down-and-catch-me-later plan, whereas

today it takes a sapitalis to set up modest house-

keeping.

By William Philip Simms Uncle Sam, the ‘Ruthless Imperialist’

Fellow travelers here and elsewhere are doing their utmost to convince the world, despite the record, that the United States is “imperialist.” On the other hand, they seem to think Soviet Russia is truly “democratic.” Yet, since 1930, Russia has taken over the republics of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, half of Poland, parts of Germany, Romania, China and so on. Furthermore, having agreed to “free and un‘fettered elections” in occupied areas, she has set up puppet governments in Warsaw, Bucharest, Sofia, Tirana and Belgrade in violation of her pledge.

Scared to Death 3 : HENRY WALLACE is telling Americans that

everybody in Europe seems scared to death over what

the United States “is up to.” And, while in Europe, he must have added to their panic. Strangely eneugh,

however, neither Mexico nor Canada, our next-door neighbors, manifests the slightest uneasiness, nor does

the Philippines whose very freedom she owes to us -

twice over—-from Spain and from Japan. ‘Surely, if the United States were bent on “exe pansion,” Soviet. style, it would either invade Canada and ‘Mexico militarily, or get some hand-picked

stooges and impose them, as governments. In Ottawa .

and Mexico City. Neither country is in a position to withstand us if we were the “ruthless imperialists” our defamers say we are. The answer, of course, is that they are lying. We have no more to do with the Mexican, Canadian or other governments of this hemisphere than we have ~with the British king. Philippines. But Moscow will continue to propa= sadin otherwise ° American democracy is the gremtesy st obstacle in road to world Bovietization.

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